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2026-01-23all: remove AUTHORS file and references to itWill Norris1-1/+1
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in the history of Tailscale's open source releases. A Brief History of AUTHORS files --- The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact. The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The Chromium Authors". This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way for the proejct maintainer to know. Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors. They are also clear that: > Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the > project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership. It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright holders. In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so it's ambiguous what that means. Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which provides some additional certification of their right to make the contribution. The source file changes were purely mechanical with: git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g' Updates #cleanup Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2025-08-15{cmd/dist,release/dist}: add support for intermediary QNAP signing certificatesPercy Wegmann1-9/+11
Updates #23528 Signed-off-by: Percy Wegmann <percy@tailscale.com>
2025-04-17cmd/dist,release/dist: sign QNAP builds with a Google Cloud hosted keyPercy Wegmann1-8/+17
QNAP now requires builds to be signed with an HSM. This removes support for signing with a local keypair. This adds support for signing with a Google Cloud hosted key. The key should be an RSA key with protection level `HSM` and that uses PSS padding and a SHA256 digest. The GCloud project, keyring and key name are passed in as command-line arguments. The GCloud credentials and the PEM signing certificate are passed in as Base64-encoded command-line arguments. Updates tailscale/corp#23528 Signed-off-by: Percy Wegmann <percy@tailscale.com>
2024-04-22release/dist/qnap: add qnap target builderSonia Appasamy1-1/+12
Creates new QNAP builder target, which builds go binaries then uses docker to build into QNAP packages. Much of the docker/script code here is pulled over from https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg, with adaptation into our builder structures. The qnap/Tailscale folder contains static resources needed to build Tailscale qpkg packages, and is an exact copy of the existing folder in the tailscale-qpkg repo. Builds can be run with: ``` sudo ./tool/go run ./cmd/dist build qnap ``` Updates tailscale/tailscale-qpkg#135 Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
2024-02-08cmd/dist: update logs for synology buildsSonia Appasamy1-0/+3
Update logs for synology builds to more clearly callout which variant is being built. The two existing variants are: 1. Sideloaded (can be manual installed on a device by anyone) 2. Package center distribution (by the tailscale team) Updates #cleanup Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
2023-08-24cmd/dist,release/dist: add distsign signing hooks (#9070)Andrew Lytvynov1-3/+3
Add `dist.Signer` hook which can arbitrarily sign linux/synology artifacts. Plumb it through in `cmd/dist` and remove existing tarball signing key. Distsign signing will happen on a remote machine, not using a local key. Updates #755 Updates #8760 Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
2023-08-03cmd/dist,release/dist: expose RPM signing hook (#8789)Andrew Lytvynov1-3/+2
Plumb a signing callback function to `unixpkgs.rpmTarget` to allow signing RPMs. This callback is optional and RPMs will build unsigned if not set, just as before. Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1882 Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
2023-07-31cmd/dist,release/dist: sign release tarballs with an ECDSA key (#8759)Andrew Lytvynov1-2/+3
Pass an optional PEM-encoded ECDSA key to `cmd/dist` to sign all built tarballs. The signature is stored next to the tarball with a `.sig` extension. Tested this with an `openssl`-generated key pair and verified the resulting signature. Updates #8760 Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
2023-05-29release/dist/synology: build synology packages with cmd/distDavid Anderson1-1/+24
Updates #8217 Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
2023-02-24release/dist: add forgotten license headersDavid Anderson1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
2023-02-24release/dist/cli: factor out the CLI boilerplace from cmd/distDavid Anderson1-116/+7
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
2023-02-24release: open-source release build logic for unix packagesDavid Anderson1-0/+134
Updates tailscale/corp#9221 Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>